Giveaway: No More Food Fights!

Post navigation

This week a milestone was reached on my Facebook page – 6,000 ‘Likes’ and counting. For those of you not invested in social media, you may laugh at the celebration of such an event, but I consider it a worthy accomplishment. In fact, each new conversation brought about by each new connection should be considered an accomplishment when it comes to sharing more about my passion – a better understanding of food and agriculture.

To honor that progress, I will celebrate with a giveaway. As I move forward in my agvocacy efforts, begin looking at career opportunities, and set personal goals, one thing continually rises to the top cluster – I want to use my experience by helping others have better conversations about our food system. This includes everyone from the farmer to the consumer. And recently a friend and Indiana Dairy Farmer put together a book that illustrates this need well.

No More Food Fights!

No More Food Fights! by Michele Payn-Knoper provides perspectives for the Food and Farm side of the plate.

Michele Payn-Knoper has put together a great guide for both food producers and food consumers when it comes to critically thinking more about the conversations we have that center around food and farming. No More Food Fights! is two books in one; each side discussing issues relevant to either the Farm or Food side of the plate. Along with MPK’s experience, the book includes perspectives from 35 individuals from both sides of the plate that add so much to the conversation.

In the Food side of the book, MPK illustrates the frustration we face with each trip to grocery in our food buying decisions and guilt. She encourages us to use our 6 senses to obtain a more meaningful food conversation: Touch, Sight, Sound, Smell, Taste, and Common Sense. She illustrates each point well with perspectives from her own experience along with others to discuss those questions and doubts we all face.

On the Farm side of things, MPK addresses those who question the need to take time out of the busy schedule, to advocate for agriculture and share their own experiences. It’s not a matter of if a conversation will happen, but will your voice be present at the table. To emphasize how to approach these conversations and guide us through to better dialogues, Michele utilizes 6.5 points of discussion: Identify influencers, Find their hot buttons, Translate agriculture to their hot buttons, Invest 15 minutes daily, Strategize where you can reach your target audience, Follow an action plan to develop long-lasting relationships, and finally the half-point of the equation – Put your passion to work!

I promise this will not be a disappointing read if you’re interested in better discussions about food and farm topics. And if you’re feeling really ambitious, you just might read both sides of the book.

How do you enter the giveaway?

I really want to thank those of you who follow along with each and every one of my posts here on the blog, on Facebook, and Twitter. BUT I also want this to emphasize my intentions to build bridges for food and farm communication. To fix this, I have TWO books, one for an individual on each side of the plate – Food producers and Food consumers.

Fill out the entry form below. All entries will be entered into a drawing and a winner will be selected from the Food side of the plate and another from the Farm side of the plate. Each winner will receive a copy of No More Food Fights! by Michele Payn-Knoper.

Share this link with your friends. Encourage them to learn more about and consider engaging in conversations about our food system in a civil manner.

A) If you win, read No More Food Fights!, take notes, and then share it with someone on the other side of the plate.

B) If you are not the lucky winner, consider buying a copy of No More Food Fights! and/or sharing a copy with a friend on the other side of the plate.

Giveaway has closed.

Entries must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern time, Monday, April 29. Winners from each group will be selected via Random Number Generator and notified by email, based on completion of entry form, on Tuesday, April 30th and will have 24 hours to respond. Books are provided by Ryan Goodman and no immediate family members of Ryan Goodman or Michele Payn-Knoper are eligible for the giveaway. Participation in the contest guidelines and future sharing of the books by selected winners will be based on the honor system.

Related

Post navigation

Published by Ryan Goodman

Ryan Goodman lives in Colorado, is an avid trail and ultrarunner, and works with farmers and ranchers to help them share their stories of agriculture and how food is raised. Connect with Ryan online as @BeefRunner. #TeamBeef.
View all posts by Ryan Goodman

4 Comments

“MPK illustrates the frustration we face with each trip to grocery in our food buying decisions and guilt. She encourages us to use our 6 senses to obtain a more meaningful food conversation: Touch, Sight, Sound, Smell, Taste, and Common Sense. ”

Does she mention in the book going to the Farm to buy ones foods? One part of the conversation is choice… Modern society has probably spent much time of their youth growing up in a grocery store, with weekly or more trips with their parents. If that were turned around for future generations- to be able to go to a farm or local neighbor for their foods, the use of those senses would be truly exhilarating as well as informative. The boxes and bright artificial colors at the grocery store can be deceiving. The unknown or unpronounceable ingredients are a challenge, one needs more than senses for that, they need a compilation and dictionary of FDA approved Food Additives and learn what GRAS means.

I am big about respecting others’ choices, and giving them the legal right to do so. I just added a link to my website on choice and the differences of production. We all need to be able to get our product to our markets, without the govt telling how to do it. How many times do we have to tell the govt to leave the farmer alone or to stay out of our kitchens? The link ( sausage link? 😉 is A Pig’s Tail. http://www.humanesociety.org/apigstail Lovely cartoon. Only 5 minutes long and good relaxing music. We are getting our pigs soon, so it was timely for my 6 year old son to watch it!

Search The Blog

Social

It’s all me

This blog does not represent communications for my employers, including National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, a contractor to the Beef Checkoff. These are my personal views, experiences, or those of guest authors. We are all welcomed to our opinions, but please be respectful of others’.

Affiliate Links

Amazon affiliate links may be used on this site. When you use these links to purchase items, I receive a commission at no extra cost to you. This helps keep the lights on and this blog running.